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Added the Xenforo section WIP

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The Usual Suspects - Battle.net Open Tech Support Guild

Site Power Up - The very first forums and everything lost

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Also fixups, cleanup and other general enhancements as always :)
 
Daskunk

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Heh.. I was a TheHelper.net poster before I became an MVP.

If you want I can contribute to this somehow, I've only been an MVP for a few years though.
 
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Daskunk said:
Heh.. I was a TheHelper.net poster before I became an MVP.

If you want I can contribute to this somehow, I've only been an MVP for a few years though.
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Info on the current MVP program, and how you became a MVP. Also, about how you found TH.net and maybe some of that story too. It might not be interesting to you but it is interesting to us :)
 
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I stubbed out the main Tom Mai link on the Story since his stuff is in the stories section. I am going to do my own thing on Tom since I think I know him pretty well posting news together for a number of years now :)
 
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Added FireCat and Siretu as a Potential Section Stubs with a high probability of being done soon.
 
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Oh yeah. I showed the MVP-specific part of this to a recently added MVP, Leviathan. He thought it was interesting to read the history of the MVP program even though he never had anything to do with Thehelper.net.

Anyway I will write up something for this eventually. I will have to check in with the guys at Blizzard to see how many details I'm allowed to spill about the inner-workings of the MVP program currently. :p
 
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They have a bunch of information about it public I have been doing some research. I will be adding Moar to that section later.
 
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Let's see if we can invite a few more MVPs and try to finish the research up with even more details, hopefully we get Blizzard's attention and actually get one of the employees to reply here.
 
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tom_mai78101 said:
Let's see if we can invite a few more MVPs and try to finish the research up with even more details, hopefully we get Blizzard's attention and actually get one of the employees to reply here.
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I highly doubt that Tom Mai. We have not had a Blizzard forum lurker in a long time. Last one was our StarEdit mod back on the SitePowerUp forums before we got Vbulletin.
 
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Since Daskunk said that he's going to check up with Blizzard, he might share this site with them. Who knows? There's a chance!
 
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kc just now came back as Prometheus - lets see if he does anything :)
 
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This is still on my to do list, I shall be returning! Busy with life recently, ;(.
 
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